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The Zonta Club of Cincinnati installed new directors and members at their October 25 dinner meeting. Directors installed for the 2012-14 term were Cathy Bruckert of West Chester and Aurora Lambert of Colerain Township. Directors Laura Delaney of Montgomery, Patricia Jude of Loveland, and Verna Tuttle of North Bend were installed at an earlier date, as was Dr. Mary Clare Hill of Harrison as a Director on the Zonta Service Fund of Cincinnati Board from 2012-15. Membership Committee Chair Dr. Mary Clare Hill and Service Chair Glenda Carota (Cleves) were also recognized at the international, district, and club levels for their outstanding recruitment of new members over the past biennium.

Gail Helmburger (Cherry Grove), Dr. Eleanor J. Canos (Cincinnati), and Akosua E. Addo (West Chester), were also inducted into the Zonta Club of Cincinnati as its newest members. Gail has an extensive science and medical background and is currently employed by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine as the Technical Director of Simulation Education. Eleanor is a retired anesthesiologist and a former Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Akosua is a recent graduate of Xavier University and now holds the position of Operations Leadership Associate with Fifth Third Bank.

President Terri-Purtee said, “The Zonta Club of Cincinnati welcomes our newest members, and congratulates our directors, and committee chairs for their outstanding work for the club. They bring extraordinary talents toward advancing the lives of women in the greater Cincinnati community and around the world with Zonta International and its partners.”

The Zonta Club of Cincinnati, part of Zonta International, is a service organization comprised of executives and professionals dedicated to advancing the status of women worldwide through service projects, advocacy, education, and program funding to build a stronger community. Recent service projects include throwing quarterly Everybody’s Birthday Parties for Bethany House Women’s Shelter residents, teaching knitting classes at the Women’s Connection, providing holiday gifts to clients of the Visiting Nurse Association and Families Forward, decorating the Mary Magdalen House windows on a quarterly basis, and co-sponsoring the 2013 Violence Against Women Conference.

Local fundraising projects include their recent Wine & Dine Around the World Scholarship Fundraiser and the upcoming Coupons for Change in partnership with Joseph-Beth Booksellers on Sunday, November 25. Locally, the Zonta Club of Cincinnati supports the following organizations: The Women’s Connection, Bethany House Women’s Shelter, Mary Magdalen House, the Visiting Nurse Association, North Fairmount Community Center, Tender Mercies, and Families Forward.

For more information about the Zonta Club of Cincinnati and how to become a member, visit their Web site at www.zonta-cinti.org, send e-mails to info@zonta-cinti.org, call Donna Seitz (513.842.0708), or visit Zonta International at www.zonta.org.